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Founding Security Engineer

United States, New York 200000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 04, 2026
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Porter is the cloud platform for modern tech companies. We provide the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost, allowing the next generation of builders to run anything, anywhere. Traditional engineering orgs have to allocate time and money to managing AWS, Azure, and GCP, and quickly become locked in. We enable top engineering teams to instantly create production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their application code, and easily monitor and manage it, unlocking them to focus on what they do best – building a great product. We are a company that cares about building something beautiful. We are not afraid of tackling the hardest problems. We are looking for people who want to do the best work of their lives while building the future of tech.

Job Responsibility

  • Found our Secure Engineering team, comprised of both security-focused engineers and non-security engineers rotating in project-by-project
  • Drive our internal security roadmap and champion security best-practices to the rest of the team
  • Ship security features to our customers

Requirements

  • Software engineering
  • Proficiency in Go
  • Testing (unit testing, integration testing)
  • System architecture and design
  • Database skills (SQL, etc)
  • Building APIs and associated tooling
  • Infra-as-Code
  • Systems administration / operation
  • Kubernetes
  • Database admin
  • Application security
  • Authn/authz (especially as they apply to APIs)
  • Vulnerability discovery/research - especially common web vulnerability (SQLi, XSS, etc)
  • Secure development practices, particularly teaching/helping others adopt them
  • Cloud/infra security
  • Building/maintaining security logging systems
  • AWS IAM and related tech
  • General cloud security best practices
  • Secret management
  • Network security
  • Container security

What we offer

  • Top-of-market compensation that grows with the company
  • Medical, vision, dental insurance
  • 401k
  • 6 weeks of PTO, 6 weeks of remote work
  • Free lunch and office snacks

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